Best Civ Game Ever At the Present Time

[Seeker]

Which Civ game is the very best, as of right now (assuming no new expansions, and a patch that only fixes technical bugs)?

[Pembleton]

Civ3. But that doesn't mean it doesn't need work. And I'm not even talking about technical issues. There are some gameplay and interface issues that I hope will be dealt with.

[Seeker]

Note that I didn't bother listing CtP I....

[Pembleton]

Originally posted by Seeker
Note that I didn't bother listing CtP I....

With Celestial Dawn's and other mods, I played CTP more than CTP2. That's because they only made 1 patch for CTP2. I heard it was a lot better after mods came out for CTP2 but at that point it was too late for me to care, especially since I found out after already knowing that Civ3 would be out.

[Seeker]

Seems like a lotta people here like place a high priority on pretty graphics and other 'chrome'...

[Eli]

Civ2.

Only because it lasted as a popular game with large community for 5-6 years.
Civ3 is a serious pretender for the throne, but only years will tell.

[Pembleton]

Originally posted by Seeker
Seems like a lotta people here like place a high priority on pretty graphics and other 'chrome'...

Um yeah...that's exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned gameplay and interface issues that need to be addressed, and when I said I didn't play CTP2 because it was only patched once.

I was really talking about the graphics. Go through all my posts. It's just repeated complaints about how ugly the tanks look, and that settlers look like they are holding guitars (wait that's a good, funny thing).

[Paul]

CTP 1 is still the only Civ game with PBEM, and that makes it still the best for me. But that may change when there comes a PBEM patch for Civ3.

[Seeker]

LOL I wasn't talking to you Pembleton, I hadn't even read your post yet.

[Seeker]

Not even one vote for MGE?

[Drone #9]

What? No SMAC/SMAX?

[Seeker]

SMAC is not Civilization. It is 'Civ-esque', but it is not historical.

[ColdWizard]

Civ2 MGE

[Earthling7]

Originally posted by Seeker
Note that I didn't bother listing CtP I....

CivIII. Despite it's issues, it is better than what has come before it.

And why not list CtP? It was better than CtP2, and this makes the poll incomplete.

[Earthling7]

Originally posted by Seeker
SMAC is not Civilization. It is 'Civ-esque', but it is not historical.

True. Fantastic Worlds is though, with it's monsters, ToT with it's aliens... And as graphics go, CtP and CtP2 were better than Civ3.